In a way I was kinda hoping I wouldn't get hooked onto another Sci-Fi teen show, they seem to be my weakness, but low and behold The Secret Circle has me wanting more.
'The Secret Circle' is also a series of books by the same author of The Vampire Diaries and has been made into a TV show by the same creator as The Vampire Diaries, so I was expecting some similarities. Now either I was just blinded by my curiosity of the show or it wasn't actually that similar. Ok so it has the same dark broodiness but for starters I really like the female lead character Cassie (Britt Robertson), which is really shocking considering I rarely like the leading females in Sci-Fi shows they also tend to be so whiny and annoying, or maybe It's the actress herself, either way I'm rooting for her.
So Cassie's mum is killed (made to look like an accident) right at the beginning, and we are shown the identity to the killer and that he is doing it through some form of witchcraft, so no real mystery to solve apart from why exactly did the kill her and want Cassie sent back to the mums home town? We then go through the whole moving to the new town and meeting the new people (characters) thing and the starring at the cute but mysterious boy across the hallway. Unfortunately for me I was little bit peeved when we meet the principal mainly because Charisma Carpenter (Cordleia Chase form Buffy, the best TV character ever) tweeted that she was meant to audition for that role but they cast Natasha Henstridge instead, so this meant no return of another BTVS alum to our screens this fall. The reason i say this is bad for me is because now every time this actress come onto screen this is all i can think about, she is not bad in fact shes good, and her character has a hidden agenda cannot wait to find out that, but still I wanted Cordy back on my screen.
Which brings me to the supporting players namely Faye Chamberlin (Phoebe Tonkin) the principals daughter, who was described as the Cordelia Chase of the show by critics and boy was she ever, another reason why CC would have been a perfect casting as the mother. I can tell Faye will be one of my favourites, she is also being painted as the bad girl but I reckon she will become our heroines Cassie's number one ally. So who do I think will turn out to be the baddie, that's gotta be the ever helpful friendly girlfriend of cute boy in hallway and daughter of the alpha witch murderer Diana Meade (Shelley Hennig). First off Cassie has serious heat with her boyfriend Adam (Thomas Dekker) which is enough to drive any girl over the edge. Next up her dad has some serious magic and he is not afraid to use them, in fact he is defo up to some sort of plan. On top of all that she seems to have allocated herself as leader of the secret circle so she has some real 'I gotta be in controll' issues and if Cassie is guna mess up that and steal her bf (we can all see it coming) then she is guna turn into one major biaaaaaaatch. Adam hasnt really had much to do so far other than show us him and Cassie work some really cute magic together (loved Faye's line about that) and well to flirt with Cassie, I find his dad Ethan more interesting but I am scared he is going to be killed off. Ethan seems to really want to tell Cassie the deep dark secrets as he is clearly still in love with her mother but he is being silenced by Charles Meade (Gale Harold), Diana's father, which of course gives us more questions. Why did all the 6 kids in the circle loose one of their witchy parents? Why are some of the parents trying to get their kids to form the circle again? And what happened that was so tragic that they abolished witchcraft?
So I cant yet find a promo for episode 2 so check out the series preview promo, gives a couple of episode 2 clips in it:
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